You know that the taste of the dish influenced by the crockery it is cooked and served. Be it chemical or only soft relation. I am not saying that fastfood can be saved by the use of proper plates. I am saying that Latvian national dishes and Latvian clay pottery are a centuries-long blessed union that is unthinkable withrouth each other. A big green-gazed clay bowl with the delicious just cooked barely groats porridge, a bluish glazed jug with the curdled milk. Caly crock. And those beautifully shaped vases , put in the middle of the Sunday table going so well with the last autumn flowers... I feel lucky that in Latvia there are still potters that are devoted to traditional mastery, traditional shapes, traditional recipes, traditional firing - their crockery is amaizngs. Latgale has very strong pottery traditions – e.g. you can check Ludza’s craftsman center. But other regions also have remarkable clay craftsman and artists – for example in Zemgale just next to Rundale castle, the largest in Baltics, my friend is organizing public clay pottery firing events. To accconowledge the thruth - the porcealan, glass and other fancy materials have outcompleted the clay , however, I bet that in every Latvian family you would find some articles of the clay pottery. For the celebrations. For Christmas, for Midsummer. In the traditional fairs were the potters come with their masterpieces it is virtually impossible to pass by - clay reveals the harmony, the beauty and the essence of soil.